"As expected of you," Rosse smiled, a trace of admiration in his eyes.
He liked smart subordinates; those people usually had strong initiative.
People like Ishida Ryuken, who had both brains and strength, were not common in his world.
Truly clever people were basically his opposites.
Arriving in this world, first encountering Aizen, and then Ishida Ryuken voluntarily joining him saved Rosse a lot of time spent explaining.
Rosse hugged Kurosaki Masaki's waist and, right in front of Ishida Ryuken, leisurely entered the shadow.
Ishida Ryuken followed with a cold expression and entered the shadow with them.
Since this was something created by Quincies, as a pure-blood Quincy he only needed one glance to roughly understand the method of entry and exit.
The feeling of crossing boundaries was strangely wondrous.
There was no dizziness from spatial traversal, nor any resistance like passing through a water curtain. It felt more like stepping onto a cold, viscous mirror; the world's color and sound were stripped away in an instant.
The next second, the scene before them suddenly opened up.
This place had neither the boundless white desert of Hueco Mundo nor the picturesque natural scenery of Soul Society.
Instead, there was a solemn and magnificent white city.
Countless crystal-like white buildings rose up, arranged with a cold geometric beauty; sharp edges and straight lines formed the city's main motif.
Beneath their feet the ground was mirror-smooth and white. The wide streets were empty of people, and the whole city was so quiet they could hear their own heartbeats.
The three of them appeared abruptly on the street, and the surrounding reishi began to gather, as if verifying their identities.
But soon the gathered reishi dispersed just as quickly, as if they had already recognized the three as Quincies.
Seeing this, Ishida Ryuken glanced at Rosse with surprise.
That little trick to confirm one's own kind was mainly sensing the spiritual pressure of the newcomers.
If someone shared the same origin as the Quincies, they would be treated as one of their own. Otherwise, they would be regarded as an intruder.
He and Kurosaki Masaki were Quincies, so naturally they were not considered intruders.
But Rosse, a King of Hueco Mundo, passed the test without doing anything, which made him feel that something was unusual.
At least, with his eyesight, he saw no sign of Rosse using any means.
Either Rosse's method was extremely subtle, or the Quincies' detection method was ineffective against him.
Either way, it already suggested that recognizing Rosse as their king did not seem like a bad deal.
"Want to look around more? This space was created by Yhwach. He hasn't fully recovered his power yet, so his control over this place is weak. If we came a few years later, the moment we entered we would be sensed by him," Rosse smiled.
"900 years to restore heartbeat, 90 years to restore consciousness, 9 years to restore power. He has only just regained consciousness; recovering power takes longer," Ishida Ryuken said lightly.
As a pure-blood Quincy from the line that left the Wandenreich, he had naturally heard that prophecy.
"So? Do you think you could go kill him now?", Rosse asked with interest.
"I'm not that naive. If he could be killed so easily, he would have been killed by you long ago," Ishida Ryuken shook his head; he had self-awareness.
Against any ordinary Captain or Espada, he could confidently remain undefeated.
But against people like Captain Commander Yamamoto, Yhwach, or Rosse, he knew he had no chance.
Even if those opponents were not at their peak, it wouldn't make much difference.
"Hey, who are you? I don't remember seeing you before."
Suddenly a female voice reached Rosse and the others.
"Oh, have we been exposed?"
Kurosaki Masaki's heart tightened. Her spiritual pressure was still recovering; although it increased noticeably every day, she still hadn't reached true captain level and naturally couldn't sense someone approaching.
But both Rosse and Ishida Ryuken had expectations about the girl.
Or rather, each had their own thoughts.
Ishida Ryuken wanted to see whether Rosse could still make people ignore him in Quincy territory.
Rosse, on the other hand, was simply curious about the person who had appeared.
"Candice Catnipp, that should be your name, right?", Rosse turned slowly and had already spoken the name.
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[Candice Catnipp]
[Overall Strength: S- (Perfect Saint Form: S)]
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Standing before him was a tall green-haired woman.
Her figure was explosively curvy, and with a white tank top and shorts she exuded a wild charm.
"Hey, I'm asking you who you are. How do you know my name?"
Candice was never a patient person; she hated evasive answers.
If Rosse did not reply, she was ready to teach him a lesson.
Just a few days ago she had been granted the power of the Holy Cross, and she happened to be testing her new power on the several people with decent spiritual pressure in front of her.
"My name? You may call me Your Majesty, or you may call me Master," Rosse said calmly.
"What the hell are you talking about?", Candice could no longer suppress her temper and reached to form a Quincy Cross.
Ishida Ryuken barely moved as she did.
From the moment Rosse spoke, he already knew why Rosse could approach them so closely.
He didn't care about that at all.
After all, his cherished wife was already dead; among the people he cared about now, none were female.
So he did not mind whatever Rosse intended to do.
"Die!"
Candice immediately formed a lightning-shaped reishi bow. Sacred Quincy arrows like thunder shot toward Rosse like rain.
But what happened next terrified her.
Those holy Quincy arrows vanished the instant they were fired.
In less than a blink of an eye, Rosse's figure flickered and he was suddenly standing before her.
"When?", Feeling a hand cover her shoulder, Candice broke out in goosebumps.
Before she could dodge, she suddenly felt a poisonous-seeming reishi pass from Rosse's palm into her body.
'Not good...'
Rosse had acted too fast. By the time that reishi entered her body and she tried to react, it was completely too late.
Candice despairingly realized that her reishi had been thrown into chaotic disorder by that invading reishi.
Now she could not control her own reishi at all.
Not only could she not unleash her full strength, even the reishi bow in her hand had automatically dissipated.
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